Our Story
In 1977, when the pop charts read like a who's who of mullets and bellbottoms, founders Leslie Lipton and Shelley Lotter had a vision of a new kind of group: one that would travel back in time and pay homage to the great pioneers—Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, to name a few. They invited a select group of singers, including several former Whiffenpoofs, to join in their dream. The group they founded sang jazz like it was 1917, and Cole Porter had just graduated from Yale. They were Redhot & Blue.
Forty years later, we are still Redhot & Blue: our distinct arrangements and award-winning sound have grown a great deal since our founding and continue to set us apart in the music scene at Yale and across the globe. We love singing jazz, but our repertoire has expanded to include a wide variety of genres, from Broadway hits to the Beatles to Britney Spears. Through the dedication of our members, past and present, we've come together to chase the bounds of musical possibility, while always looking back to the greats who inspired the conception of Redhot & Blue.
meet the Redhotties.
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redhot music
Summertime
by George Gershwin
Fever
as sung by Peggy Lee
Hit the Road Jack
by Ray Charles
Dreamer
by Laufey
Blackbird
by The Beatles
Fly Me to the Moon
as sung by Frank Sinatra
Night and Day
by Cole Porter
Round Midnight
by Thelonious Monk
Chega De Saudade
by Tom Jobim
Lullaby of Birdland
as sung by Sarah Vaughan
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
by Duke Ellington
Caravan
by Duke Ellington
...and more!
redhot repertoire
redhot tours
Every year, Redhot embarks on three tours, traveling both domestically and internationally. Whether riding a boat on the River Thames in London, hitting up the beach in Florida, singing in the streets of Shanghai, devouring sushi in Japan, or hang gliding in Rio De Janeiro we bring our love of adventure—and music—wherever we go.
tour galleries
Redhot has been all over the globe, from the packed metro stations of São Paulo to the beautiful Great Wall of China just outside of Beijing. Here are a few galleries from tours of the past.
